Country

South Korea: 3 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

South Korea is temperate broadleaf forest country three times over. Central Korean deciduous forests cover most of the peninsula's southern half - classic four-season woodland of oaks, maples, and their companions - while the Manchurian mixed forests reach down from the north into the colder mountains, and the small Southern Korea evergreen forests mark the mild southern coast and islands, where broadleaf evergreens replace the deciduous canopy. The gradient is simple and useful: cold-winter continental conditions in the north and uplands, easing to nearly frost-free maritime conditions in the far south. Gardeners can grow the full hardy deciduous repertoire almost everywhere, and camellia-belt evergreens where the southern ecoregion reaches. Two of the three ecoregions rate Nature Imperiled, so intact native woodland is scarcer than the green hills suggest.